By Steve JeffersonMAUNAKEA,
Hawaii – An international team of scientists has detected and confirmed the faintest early-Universe galaxy ever using the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit on...
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MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are so carefully timed that they provide long-term...
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By Steve JeffersonMAUNAKEA,
Hawaii – An International team led by scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used
the W. M. Keck Observatory to study the role of star formation rates in metal
contents...
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MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A
team of astronomers at the Friedrich Alexander University led
by Péter Németh has discovered a binary star moving nearly at the
escape velocity of our galaxy. There are about...
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MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A group of researchers, led by a University
of California, Riverside graduate student, observed distant galaxies with the
MOSFIRE high-resolution near-infrared spectrometer at W....
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MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Using the world’s largest telescopes, researchers discovered ancient cold gas clouds larger than galaxies in the early Universe. The discovery was announced today at a press...
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MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – A team of Australian researchers used two Maunakea-based observatories – Gemini North and W. M. Keck Observatory – to discover why some galaxies are clumpy rather than spiral...
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MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – The W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has just been
awarded the 2015 NASA Group Achievement Award for pioneering the Keck
Observatory Archive (KOA) ten years ago, which has...
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MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – Hawaii’s W. M. Keck Observatory has successfully deployed a $4 million laser
system that provides a marked increase in the resolution and clarity of what
are already the most...
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MAUNAKEA, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars. The discovery, made with the help of the Maunakea-based...
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